In addition to the fine suggestions by Peter Warren and Paul Wiener, I'd also suggest the following: Early newpaper battles in Sam Fuller's PARK ROW John Wayne wins over skeptical David Jansen to the pro-war side in THE GREEN BERETS Jonathan Pryce's Murdoch/Gates-merger villain in the last James Bond film, TOMORROW NEVER DIES Charles Laughton is another villainous media baron in THE BIG CLOCK See DeVito's slezoid journalist in L.A. CONFIDENTIAL and the reluctant tabloidists of MICHAEL WOMAN OF THE YEAR features Hepburn as a crusading correspondent and Mary Louise Parker's rendition of her in THE HUDSUCKER PROXY The Menken-like skeptic in INHERIT THE WIND The BROADWAY MELODY OF 1936 features Jack Benny, of all people, as a Winchell-like gossip columnist A surprising number of Screwball Comedies have reporters as main characters. In addition to the previously mentioned Capra films, see NOTHING SACRED and THE PHILADELPHIA STORY Although the "ethics" are only tangential, see Clark Gable and Myrna Loy as foreign correspondents in LOVE ON THE RUN and Joel McCrea in Hitchcock's FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT An ethical question is the motivation for the main narrative in THE MAN WHO SHOT LIBERTY VALANCE; other such questions frame the pretense for the narrative (such as it is) of DEEP IMPACT See crusading journalists in ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN, THE PARALLAX VIEW and CALL NORTHSIDE 777 (also the ones who inevitably have their printing presses wrecked in such films as DODGE CITY) DEADLINE USA THE LOST HONOR OF KATHRYN BECK (a made-for-tv remake of THE LOST HONOR OF KAThARINA BLUM) Don Larsson ---------------------- Donald Larsson Minnesota State U, Mankato [log in to unmask] ---- Screen-L is sponsored by the Telecommunication & Film Dept., the University of Alabama.